Dr Jennifer Bernstein
@jenn_bernstein
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Editor-in-Chief @CaseStudEnv. Adjunct ENVS @Tarletonstate & @TexasTech. 99.9% at jennbernstein where the skies are bluer.
Joined October 2009
@Unpop_Science Thanks for this. Here is one of my students’ award winning posters on the spatial temporal distribution of snow crab in the Bering Sea if it helps- (full thesis also available online).
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"Dear Dr. Bernstein, I am delighted to tell you that your manuscript has been accepted for publication in Nature Climate Change.". Holy moly.
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Before the ship sinks, I’ll just say that if you’re anti-nuclear you aren’t an environmentalist…it’s been fun my friends!.
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Addressing environmental problems at one scale sometimes means causing them at another. Rampant boosterism of renewables without life cycle analysis will alienate environmental allies @DustinMulvaney . .
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Anyone need a sobering reminder as to why we want it clean and cheap?
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The waste from nuclear is the best kind of waste. Small, manageable, controllable. Doesn’t create huge disparate impacts. We can’t pretend avoiding it makes things better. #sorrynotsorry.
Imagine spending billions of dollars to rip up every single wind turbine in the state of California. That’s basically the plan with Diablo Canyon.
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@d_kompare I pace constantly while I lecture. My students are captivated. I have no notes. There is no PowerPoint.
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@RebeccaCaprara @eatingb00ks My daughter once called a cemetery a “sculpture garden with dead people”.
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@michael_germana Congrats! My first PhD adviser was absent. When I changed advisers, she was furious and said “you obviously don’t want to get your PhD.” I did. I teach at an R1 now.
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This is a “text message” that was slipped under my office door and I gotta say I appreciate my daughter’s mastery of the leading survey question item.
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I feel guilty to be happy. but hey all you cool cats and kittens, I bought a house. For me! In Colorado. It has a hottub overlooking a creek. It’s perfect for me+ the girls, has space for my parents (as needed) and current roommate and my tiny trailer and garden and omg omg omg.
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In the midst of the garbage fire that is my personal life, I, um. signed my first book contact today? I am writing about Sustainable Development Goal #12- Responsible Production and Consumption. Looking forward to featuring awesome women and POC.
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I was going to say stop flight-shaming because it’s a social signifier and a status symbol but it was done for me. Travel is mind-opening. Planes, at present, are problematic. Fix planes. Guilting folks for individual behavior without knowing their life is not the solution.
Of course, whether you support or oppose this tweet depends on how seriously you view the climate crisis. Personally I'd vote for a livable planet over a fossil-fueled commercial aviation system.
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"Raffi turned down opportunities to commercialize [Baby Beluga] and convert it into a franchise. This reflects Raffi’s deeper concern about the well-being of children, which extends to the environment upon which they depend.".Thank you world for @Raffi_RC .
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The entire field of science communication is based on the public misunderstanding of the risk of nuclear.
People keep asking if we consider ourselves environmentalists. My response: the BEST KIND!.
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After ZERO one-on-one interactions, it happened! I’m one of the cool kids! Finally!
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"Researchers found that cities scoring highest on touting their green bonafides tend to score lowest on affordability and inclusivity. 'Green Trajectories' researchers found, risks creating urban centers that become homogenized 'enclaves for the elite'.”.
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I’m three follows away from 1000, so if you know three people who like a grab bag of spatial science, nerdy cartography, critical environmentalism, feminism, and environmental history fandom, and a hopeless infatuation for the US West, I’m their girl.
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When you support the very concept of "overpopulation", you are inherently supporting which populations are important and which aren't. And dictating what women should do with their bodies.
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I’m thankful for science.
"Wait, what?" "Really?" Those were our reactions to learning that #turtles can breathe through their butts
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We have a world with a Raffi in it, and that’s enough to get this Monday off to a good start. Let’s go fight some fascism!.
to any MAGA followers I may have: my music and values are totally opposed to the fascist trump cult. posted #ResistFascism often in last few years. for you I’d wish a change of heart. hatred cannot lead. ever. love, respect diversity. #ChildHonouring #USandTheHolocaustPBS.
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“Issues common to these groups accorded with ideas of purity, an interest in survivalism, and a deep distrust of the government.”.
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@TamarHaspel It’s actually a normal aid station snack in endurance stuff. I ate salted boiled potatoes all the time while ultra running.
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Thanks, @EricHolthaus and Grist for being open-minded and not dogmatic. It’s time to go nuclear in the fight against climate change via @grist.
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Sooooo my baby got through surgery today and guess what I didn’t wake up early to grade because she wanted to snuggle and I’m pretty cool with my decisions.
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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?.Dad: That should've been you.Me: I am not that kind of doctor.Dad: Not asking for a geographer to help.Me: This is an emergency.Dad: Go see if telling them the capital city of Nigeria helps.Me: I am not that kind of geographer.
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Academia, what is the risk of publishing a theoretical piece that contradicts stuff you have written in the past? I’ve grown! But I don’t want to throw past-me under the bus (the piece argues that environmentalism’s inability to be operationalized is a good thing, oh boy). Help?.
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A quick rant on “performative non-working”. Let’s stop assuming working over the holidays means an individual is being taken advantage of by their employer. And stop twitter-shaming people working.
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Environmentalism has a long history of justifying all kinds of terrible stuff (e.g., eugenics!) in the name of environmental problem solving. While I think @DoctorVive has good intentions here, we enviros need to be sensitive to this history and do better.
If weeks of suspended high-carbon economic activity can cut China's emissions by a quarter, I don't want to hear one fucking word about how decarbonizing quickly enough to maintain a livable planet is "unrealistic.".
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@deirdrereedy @alystentothis Oh and if you don’t work out at 5am you are a moral failure. That’s been fun.
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Truly an honor to be named a Senior Fellow @TheBTI. They continually make me challenge my assumptions in the name of solving human and environmental problems.
Very pleased to announce our @TheBTI 2020 Senior Fellows. @paulmromer @jenn_bernstein @miriamhorn Philippe Benoit and Taishi Sugiyama.
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I reviewed @DustinMulvaney's book for Nature Climate Change, and here it is. tl;dr- Everyone buy the book and read it, because it is good.
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Students, I’m sorry. I meant to catch up on grading on the plane. But a tired adoptive mom handed me her one-week old baby, born addicted, and she took a well-deserved long nap. Meet Jasic, my new bestie. He’s gonna be okay.
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@LRNROSE I don't believe in crystal healing, so a date told me I should learn about the relationship between nature, science and religion. I pulled a book off my shelf called "Envisioning Nature, Science, and Religion" that I contributed to. He didn't back down. Haven't spoken since.
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Article concept: Deep dive into the stories behind the faces of the mid-1990's hippie brands- Dr. Bronners. Braggs. etc. Who were they? Would you read?.
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Sorry to be that guy, but quick reminder that environmentalism never was ideologically, ethically, or pragmatically coherent (e.g, Gottleib 1993) and nor is it now (e.g, @MCNisbet 2014; and um, me).
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“Environmentalists need to be ready for sovereign nations to make land management decisions they don’t like. That’s what sovereignty means.” @PaulRobbins15 @TheBTI.
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Environmentalism needs to take feminism seriously. On Mother Earth And Earth Mothers via @YouTube.
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@jacasiegel I find they will read one when it’s early in the game. You deserve someone who reads ALL your papers.
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Don’t get too jealous, but I got coffee with @Matthuber78 and the hottest book signature at @theAAG (p.s. buy his book, and if you already have, buy another copy)
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Guys, my roommate is one of the kindest and most thoughtful humans I’ve ever met. We went on this hike today! It’s his 30th birthday and this was not Plan A. Anyone wanna send good wishes?
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I am writing a book on Sustainable Development Goal 12, Sustainable Consumption and Production. Publication Spring 2021.
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"If there’s one question I get more than any other, it’s 'Are we doomed?'. the people asking me that question are members of the global 1% and some of the least at-risk people in human history.". @atrembath spitting truth as usual.
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@JacquelynGill My aunt makes the joke that I got my Masters in memorizing state capitals and my PhD in the capitals in all the countries in the world. It’s really funny!.
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I’m a social scientist who has studied the relationship btwn attitudes/ behavior for awhile. Changing behavior is crazy hard. Even if we did, carbon emissions would not be addressed sufficiently. Big structural change, even when it makes us uncomfortable, is all that will work.
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Burdening children with our planets future and telling them an apocalypse is inevitable might create some anxiety, ya think. WE have created anxiety in kids. Not climate.
"With climate advocates’ efforts having done little more than set back their own decarbonization efforts over the last 40 years, it makes sense that they’d try on a new (and more sympathetic) face." Children. New piece from @JessicaWeinkle for @thebti Journal:
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Homeschooling tip- give a kid something broken and a toolbox and see what happens. Now my daughter is brimming with pride, knows her way around a toolbox, and the squirter thing on the mop works. Wow.
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I read the article. Tell me again who died?.
But nuclear is so safe you can drink tritium and stand beside reactor cores while pregnant and nobody ever ever dies.
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@LMalloy I always thought I should just throw the food away and then we don’t need to deal with all the dinner table time. And then I was like, I can just throw the MONEY away and skip a shopping trip.
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@AstroKatie The only way I have achieved whatever type of success I have is by working hard, following my interests whether or not they are marketable, and not trying to be successful.
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I just taught my daughter how a cassette tape works. It appears that the heart of rock ‘n roll is in fact, still beating.
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Marriage is great but have you ever papered your home with posters of advanced energy technologies published by the DOE Loan Programs Office
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Data actually shows that the people living in the closest geographic proximity to nuclear plants have highly favorable opinions of them.
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@TedNordhaus My goodness. This isn’t worth responding to and I got no dog in this fight, but how about producing some of the best young minds of this generation. SMH.
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I have been a foster for awhile now, and today I was adopted. I am *beyond* thrilled to make the a world better place with the smartest people I know (they also throw great parties-oh-wait-I-mean-conferences).
I'm extremely pleased to welcome @jenn_bernstein, @TheBTI's new academic liaison. Jenn joins us after years as a senior fellow, advisor, and contributor. True to form, she's giving a talk on nuclear at USC on her first day:.
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In our book (out today!), we evaluate SDG12, which aims to reduce the impact of production/consumption on ecosystems and provide for human well-being. We argue that this can't be achieved without expanding solutions beyond the neoliberal.
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On my way to be interviewed for a Netflix documentary on the Pacific Lumber Company. Finally someone wants me to talk about redwoods for an hour, whereas the typical reaction I get is, "Mom, you can stop now.".
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"Above all, we should be careful not to construct a largely performative, scolding environmentalism that is disconnected from the scale of the problems it claims to address.".
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@ebruenig OMG we have an illness we call “TV tummy” because once the baby had the stomach flu and she got to go watch Boss Baby and now.
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Interested in serving as a Guest Editor for a Special Collection at @CaseStudEnv? Well, do I have some updated guidelines for you! Feel free to contact me with questions.
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My co-parent’s student just tested positive, so I grabbed the kiddos. They are unmoored. I wish more than anything I could protect them the world, and I can’t.
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If one person in my feed hasn’t seen this yet and sees it now, my work here is done. I cannot stop laughing.
A lawyer using Zoom had to let a judge know that he wasn’t a cat after inadvertently activating a face filter
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So. against all odds, we wrote a book. I hope you like it.
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Honored and humbled to take on a new role at this incredible journal. Thanks to everyone who has made CSE what it is over the last 5 years. Got a case study? Let me know!
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I am reacting to these climate strike photos like most people react to baby pictures. Despite having watched the evolution of environmentalism over 20+ years, I honestly didn't see this coming. I hope what's next matches the caliber of what is happening today.
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Uh, because as our lives become increasingly abstract and mediated we romanticize our agrarian past?.
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Yep. When we romanticize agrariansim, we (unintentionally!) endorse women’s unpaid labor.
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Want to know what's better than making your kid an appointment at her favorite Children's hospital? . Not having your kid have a favorite Children's hospital. So much of adulthood is being part of clubs you never even knew existed. Virtual hugs welcome.
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Us environmentalists have a bad history of making anything all about our issue of interest. Let’s stop it. Now.
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My local gas station is very good at the Twitter (and also at paying workers fairly) #naturalwater.
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Just because you demand rigorous truth telling with respect to climate change doesn’t mean you don’t believe in anthropogenic climate change jfc it’s actually the opposite.
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Apropos of nothing, “Indoor air pollution caused by the inefficient use of biomass for cooking (in Sub Saharan Africa) kills 600,000+ people a year. Women and young children are the most affected because they spend the longest time next to the stove while food is being cooked.”.
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It's mom's 76th birthday. She is a nurse, Master gardener, knows (and is skeptical) of homeopathy, cookie baker, best grandma, and everyones ride-or-die. She survived a terrible childhood and thrived. She sends the most thoughtful cards. Also my editor. My hero. HBD mom.
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After serving my 9-year old some tough information, she hid in her room for an hour. I went up and asked if she wanted to talk. She said no. I hung out quietly. She crept into my lap to snuggle. She’s reading her graphic novel. No one move. Little wins are big wins.
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Last night, my big kid (who is going through a lot) begged me, sobbing, to not go to a conference. I am live-streaming the conference, met her for lunch at school, and later I will take her to therapy. Time and time again, I realize that the little things are the big things.
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I have an idea! Let’s NOT watch that documentary and instead read Dustin’s book Solar Power, which recognizes that (1) renewables have probs wrt political ecology, AND (2) they are incredibly important wrt decarbonization!.
Sorry folks. It was not my recipe. Someone told me that's how its made. My rocks didn't even melt. I must need a commercial scale oven. I hope I didn't ruin any of your pans!!. Wife is mad about the odors. MY MISTAKE FOR WATCHING MICHAEL MOORE!.*injects disinfectant in eyes*.
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@CoreyMiles__ I once listened to a good talk about how due dates should be earlier in the name of encouraging self care in our students. Submit by 5pm and eat dinner and go to bed.
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Nothing like awards season to put a smile on your face. honored and humbled to be named a University of Southern California 2022 Mentor of the Year. Thanks to @USC_SSI and @USCDornsife for giving me students that make it easy.
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In honor of population day (yup), here's an oldie but good from @drvolts.
ICYMI! .“I’m an environmental journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here’s why.” via @voxdotcom.
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@EstOdek 1. Helped my Masters students succeed and publish their findings. 2. Went backpacking for the first time in 5 years. 3. Published in the top journal in my field. 4. Got divorced.
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Trying to develop a new skill set, and the two experts I know in this space are Bad Men who I refuse to communicate with. Having to start from 0 makes it harder and more time-consuming. This is but one subtle way the patriarchy perpetuates itself, my friends.
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I’m a trained field biologist and ecologist. I’m also a social scientist, and I know a little too much about the history of environmentalism to think that this is a hot look.
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I just can't get over the fact that they commodified minimalism.
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A little @leahstokes throwback right now:. "I conclude that the spatial distribution of citizens' policy preferences can affect democratic accountability. which can exacerbate political barriers to addressing climate change. Girl, you speak my language.
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WAIT WUT
National Geographic has compiled a digital archive of its entire editorial cartography collection—every map ever published in the magazine since the first issue in October 1888. Follow along to discover a new map from the archive every day.
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We're in the Intl. Journal of Environmental Research, talking about the diversity of Contemporary Environmentalism.
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